This is John Batchel. Speaking to research fellow Mike Toth at the Civitas Institute, that is the University of Texas at Austin,

commenting on the growth in front of eyes of Texas, growth of businesses, of residents, of corporations moving there, of infrastructure, growth in all directions.

Mike sums it up.

Texas is a construction site.

Other states can follow.

Tennessee is following.

Ohio is thinking about it, I'm told.

Here's Mike Toth on Texas right now, growing.

More of this later.

Ample evidence that suggests water might have flown on,

but flowed on the surface of Mars once, liquid water.

But the problem with that has continued always to be that

Mars atmosphere is too cold and too thin for liquid water

to exist. If ice is on the surface and it starts to get heated, it will immediately

sublimate into a gas. It will not become a liquid and flow. It just doesn't, it can't

happen with the atmosphere and the

temperatures on Mars. And there have been many, many models created to try to create the

situation where once Mars had a thicker, warmer, and climate that would allow water to flow.

But none of those models has really satisfied anybody.